The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-08
SUPERIOR. WIS.,. SATURDAY. JAN. 5. 1851.
&C. X. DAYS. is Minnesota's new

The public debt reduction in Dec
ember was sS,000,001.
Judge Church will be confirmed
ed Governor of Dakota.
The Senatorial contest will begin
in California, on the 10th.
VIM. r. Merriam is the new
speaker of the Minnesota house of
Representatives
A fire at Fargo last Monday de-
stroyed two blocks, valued at $50, 900.
Insured for $4,000.
GALVESTON dispatches report slight
shocks of earthquake in thai vicinity
on Wednesday morning last.
The amount charged up to the
fire account for 1886 is S116,6O0, 900.
The loss for December was about ell
even million.
On the Sd inst, a man committed
suicide by jumping from the suspen
sion bridge into the river below, dis
lance of 195 feet.
Miss Caldwell who gave 100000
to the proposed Roman Catholic uni
yersity, wants bishop Spalding to be
president Of the institution.
Cora Lee was taken to Spring
field, Mo, from Bolivar, Wis, to be
tried as an accessory TO the murder Of
Sarah Graham, Oct !, 1885.
The house of Mrs Hicks-L Lord in
New York looks like big bric-a-brac
store inside. She sets out very strong
punch at her entertainments.
Secretary Lamar and Mrs Hen
rietta Holt, widow Of Gen. F. l.. Holt,
were married last Wednesday at the
residence of the bride, at Macon Ga.
Mrs. Bradley MARITIME of New
York wears such big diamond star
on her head that she looks like a
travelling dew drop at evening parties
The official canvass of the vote
for governor of Minnesota made on
Monday last gives McGill a plurality
of $500. The prohibition vote was
1886.
For the month of December, 1886
the total business of the ST. Paul post
office amounted to 1914, 1886, an in
crease of $50, 1858 over the same month
of1SS5.
Martin, who has been on trial in
ST. Paul for the murder Of Buck.
Moore, last March, was acquitted by
the jury Wednesday evening. a cor
rect verdict we believe.
The civil service commission has
under consideration the testimony tax
Ell by Commissioner Oberly relative
to the unsatisfactory workings of the
civil service law in New York custom
house.
Pioneer Press: King Kalakaua
is willing to have Sandwich islands
annexed to the United states, proyid-
ed he is given an office He might
be allowed the postmastership OF
Honolulu.
-Roumafia will not 60 into cen
trail European alliance, but will pre-
serve armed neutrality until an OPP
portunity offers to make the best
alliance if serious Bulgarian complica-
cations arise.
Mayor Hewitt of New York
seems to have caught the presidential
disease-rheumatism. His right leo
is affected just when he needs it tc
kick a good many rascals out of NUM-
cipal office.-Press.
The rope with which it is propos-
ed to hang Mrs. Druse, at Herkimer
Feb. ., for the murder of her hus-
band, is being made at Utica. 1t
will be about 30 feet long and fye-
eighths of an inch in diamater.
A Chippewa Falls dispatch says
that diphtheria has broken out in a
very violent and contagious form in
the towns of Bloomer and Rice Lake
north Of the city. The disease is 50
prevalent in Boomer that the village
schools have closed indefinitely.
-Cush DAYS. does not yet roll the
Minnesota Senatorial plum as a sweet
morsel under his tongue, and we do
not believe he is going to in hurry.
Mcmillan is neither dead nor asleep,
and if he connot get there himself, he
will see to it that Cush X. DAVIS does
not.
DIR. Mckay now has telephone
communication and can be called from
his home in Uppertown very easily.
He will be found at the Cattle Cos
office in the post office block from II
to Il a. m, and calls left there or at
Mrs. Maxims store will be promptly
attended to.
st. Paul does not seem to be such
an i,literate place as was generally
supposed. We see by the papers down
there that $50 men were examined be-
fore they could find twelve who could
not read or form an opinion. What